NEWS

End Citizens United, a national organization dedicated to getting big money out of politics, is targeting “the big money 20” incumbent Republicans in the 2018 election cycle Aiming to raise and spend $35 million from small and grassroots donors to support Democratic candidates running for Congress in 2018, U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan, R-7 of Chadds Fords, and Ryan Costello, R-6 of West Goshen, are among those in the crosshairs.

A BMW with an expired tag fleeing from neighboring Chester entered the borough at a high rate of speed and when local police attempted to make a vehicle stop, the driver allegedly kept going – blowing through four stop signs along East 10th Street before entering the PECO Energy parking lot early Sunday. “While in the parking lot, the vehicle turned around and drove in the direction of (Eddystone Police) Lt. (Joseph) Pretti, forcing him to take evasive action to avoid a collision,” according to the affidavit of probable cause for the arrest of the driver, 23-year-old Omar Abdul Nagi of Chester.

Each day that Congress delays acting on the Dream Act, approximately 122 people will lose their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protection. On Tuesday, scores of students at West Chester University staged a rally to remind local lawmakers of the severity of the situation.

Charges of sexual assault were filed Nov. 22 in Whitpain District Court against a former instructor at a martial arts center in Conshohocken, who allegedly assaulted the students at his home in Blue Bell. Evan S. Burgess, 26, listed in court documents as of the unit block of Ramsgate Court, Blue Bell, was charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with minors, corruption of minors, and indecent assault.

Voting 5-4 before an auditorium filled with supporters and detractors alike, the Upper Perkiomen School Board killed the project to construct a new middle school for the district into which $8 million of taxpayer money has already been invested.

SPORTS

The Eagles won’t have to look for the other quarterback this week, as opposed to last Sunday night when they struggled to find Russell Wilson. For the most part, Jared Goff prefers the sanctity of the pocket. At least when he’s not getting the ball to Todd Gurley, one of the premier three-down backs in the NFL.

Of all things too often criticized, none is more unfairly treated than the initial balloting process for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Everything in sports should be as efficient. Trusted to the baseball writers, for that’s the only way that it could work without becoming a repugnant concession to politics or passion, the procedure is necessarily complex. But that complexity is why, in the end, the right people are enshrined in Cooperstown.

Mikal Bridges hit Gonzaga with a dunk that rocked the Garden and followed with a block that sapped the Zags’ spirit. Against an NCAA title game finalist and in prime time on basketball’s biggest stage, Bridges had his coming out performance as one of the top players in the nation.